• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.21-42
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• 2014

Abandoned roads, abandoned expressways included, cause a lot of problems such as contamination and environmental damages to underground water, fragmentation of wildlife habitats yet they are not appropriately maintained or managed because of jurisdictional conflicts and, often more importantly, insufficient budget of governments. The restoration of abandoned roads is known to benefit society and its constituents by providing better environment and higher living standards but the monetary value of the benefit is hard to measure because of non-marketability of the good that the restoration brings about. In this case, the contingent valuation method(CVM) is most powerful in evaluating non-marketable value of goods and hence it is used widely. We also used the CVM to value the benefit of restoration of abandoned expressways to find out: about 40% of total households are willing to contribute positive amount for restoration; better awareness of environmental issues leads to higher willingness-to-pay.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.105-138
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• 2017

This is case comments of several representative legal cases regarding self- determination right of patient. In a case in which an intoxicated patient attempted suicide refusing treatment, the Supreme Court ruled that the medical team's respect for the patient's decision was an act of malpractice, and that in particular medical situations (medical emergencies) the physician's duty to preserve life supersedes the patient's rights to autonomy. Afterwards, at the request of the patient's family, and considering the patient's condition (irrecoverable death stage, etc.) consistent with a persistent vegetative state, the Supreme Court deduced the patient's intention and decide to withdraw life-sustaining treatment. More recently, regarding patients who refuse blood transfusions or other necessary treatment due to religious beliefs, the Supreme Court established a standard of judgment that can be seen as conferring equal value to the physician's duty to respect patient autonomy and to preserve life. An empirical study of legal precedent with regard to cases in which the physician's duty to preserve life conflicts with the patient's autonomy, grounded in respect for human dignity, can reveal how the Court's perspective has reflected the role of the patient as a decision-making subject and ways of respecting autonomy in Korean society, and how the Court's stance has changed alongside changing societal beliefs. The Court has shifted from judging the right to life as the foremost value and prioritizing this over the patient's autonomy, to beginning to at least consider the patient's formally stated or deducible wishes when withholding or withdrawing treatment, and to considering exercises of self determination right based on religious belief or certain other justifications with informed refusal. This will have a substantial impact on medical community going forward, and provide implicit and explicit guidance for physicians who are practicing medicine within this environment.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.179-184
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• 2013

Willingness-to-pay (WTP) for pork produced by quality test was determined using a contingent valuation method. Three model studies including a dichotomous-choice and two double dichotomous-choice types were conducted. The respondents in this study appropriately understood the contingent valuation and the suggested price was significant as a characteristic variable. The results imply that there is lower chance to select pork produced by the quality test, as the price difference is greater between conventional and quality-tested pork. WTPs in double and single contingent valuation models were 735 and 547 won/100 g, respectively. WTP was increased with increasing the educational level of respondents. The average WTPs analyzed by convariate were 1,015 won/100 g for double contingent valuation and 580 won/100 g for single contingent valuation. Considering the minimum price of WTP of pork produced by quality test (547.4 won/100 g), the total economic value was estimated to be 5,173,600 million won and per capita customer value was 106,000 won. Therefore, providing an institutional strategy for pork quality test will be beneficial for the consumers.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.7-19
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• 2012

In this study of estimating the benefits of environmental materials, the CVM method used in environmental economics was applied to estimate the value of pedestrian environment improvement. After finding the Willingness To Pay (WTP) level of residents through CVM, this study attempts to calculate quantitative benefits from the pedestrian environment improvement. In this study, a survey targeting the inhabitants in Seongbuk-gu adjacent to a business area was carried out for pedestrian environment improvement considering form of payment, willingness to pay and such by establishing and showing several virtual scenarios depicting a quiet and comfortable pedestrian environment. As a result, the willingness to pay level of the Seongbuk-gu residents was 627 won of surcharge for pedestrian environment improvement per month. Additionally, the annual total benefits by pedestrian environment improvement was estimated within a range from 1,247,516,820 won to 286,305,110 won.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.317-327
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• 1996

소비자예치금제를 도입하는 경우 적정예치금을 설정하기 위해서는 용기재활용에 따른 소비자 불편비용의 산출이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 폐음료용기에 의한 외부효과를 내재화하는 정책적 수단의 하나인 소비자예치금제 동에서 소비자의 용기반환에 따른 불편비용을 추정하는 방법 및 실험적 분석결과를 제시하였다. 비시장재화의 가치평가에 널리 응용되고 있는 가상적 가치평가법(Contigent Valuation Method)을 이용하여 용기반환시 보상받고자 하는 수취의사액, 즉 불편비용에 상응하는 액수를 추정한 결과 용기반환장소 까지의 거리가 멀어짐에 따라 소비자의 불편비용은 증가하고 용기 하나당 평균 16원의 불편비용이 발생하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2011

The paper is to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) for residential water quality improvement in Busan, using non-parametric approach. There are several significant advantages of non-parametric approach, compared to parametric methods. That is, no probability distribution assumption is necessary so that there are no needs to assume or test goodness of fit, model specification and heteroscedasticity statistically. For the reliability and the validity of contingent valuation method a survey was conducted for 665 respondents, who were sampled by stratified random sampling method, by personal interview method. The result of mean WTP for residential water quality improvement in Busan was estimated to be 3,190 won to 3,331 won per month per household, while median WTP being 1,750 won. Provided that our sample is broadly representative of the Busan's population, an estimate of the annual aggregated benefit of residential water improvement for all Busan households is approximately 50.2 billion won in case of mean WTP or 27.5 billion won in case of median WTP.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.61-74
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to estimate economic value of document delivery services(DDS) at foreign journal supporting center in K University library. For this study, Bass diffusion model, which is widely used in forecasting, especially new product and new service forecasting, was adopted. User survey was also carried out from September 10 to 20, 2007. As a result, useful value(UV) of DDS is estimated about not less than 2,000,000,000 won, and willingness to pay(WTP) is estimated about less than 2,000,000,000 won. This study, economic value analysis at foreign journal supporting center, was limited to DDS, and used methodology for the study is also limited to UV and WTP. Demographic analysis(i.e., sex, age, occupation, educational level) for UV and WTP is also conducted.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.854-858
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• 2004

수자원 계획 및 관리 분야에서는 여러 상반된 기준들을 고려하여 의사결정을 내려야 하는 상황이 매우 빈번하게 발생한다. 따라서 이러한 상충되는 기준들에서 최적의 대안들을 찾고 이를 결정하기 위해 다기준 의사결정 분석과 같은 방법을 고려할 필요가 있다. 다기준 의사결정의 중요한 특징은 목적과 기준을 설정, 상대적 가중치들을 추정, 개별 성능 기준에 대한 대안들의 기여도를 결정하는데 있어서 의사 결정자의 판단에 중점을 두는 것이다. 주관적인 견해가 너무 많이 산재할 경우는 문제가 될 수 있지만, 원칙적으로 다기준 의사결정은 목적, 기준, 가중치 및 목표 달성 평가에 내한 의사결정자의 선택을 중시하며, 이를 과학적이고 명확한 방법으로 표현할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 또한 다기준 의사결정방법들은 비용-편익 분석의 실무적인 한계를 초월하는 의사결정 사안들을 위한 구조, 분석 방법, 융통성을 가지고 있기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 최근 국내 수자원 계획 및 관리 분야에 적용되는 계층화분석방법 이외에 유럽 등지에서 많이 활용되고 있는 가치함수법, Outranking 방법 등을 소개하고자 기준에 대한 대안들의 점수를 부여하는 방법과 가중치 산정 방법을 소개하였다. 또한 수자원 분야에 적용되었던 다기준 의사결정분석 방법을 소개함으로써 국내 수자원 분야에서 발생할 수 있는 여러 상반된 기준을 고려시 최적의 대안을 찾아내는데 중요한 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.548-560
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• 2021

This study estimates the amount of willingness to pay of the general public by applying the contingent value method to the Korea Program for International cooperation in Agricultural technology(KOPIA), a representative project of the Rural Development Administration. Prior to measuring the amount of willingness to pay for the KOPIA project, a survey of the perception of agriculture and rural areas and respondents' basic perception of public development assistance showed a positive perception of official development assistance in general. In particular, many respondents said that aid from the international community in the past contributed to Korea's economic and social development along with the importance of the international community helping the poor in underdeveloped countries. As a result of estimating the acceptance probability regression model by including the public awareness as a variable, the higher the income of the respondents and the more positive the perception of public development aid, the higher the amount of willingness to pay. The average annual payment amount per household derived from the acceptance probability regression model was estimated to be about 30,729 won.Based on the results of this analysis, several policy implications related to the public development aid policy of Korea were presented.

• Journal of the korean veterinary medical association
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.1001-1022
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• 2001

수의사의 의사결정 과정에는 모든 의료행위에 내재된 본질적인 특성인 불확실성 (uncertainty)이라는 문제가 필연적으로 개입되는데 특히 진단검사와 관련된 신뢰도와 정확도 측면에서는 더욱 그러하다. 기존의 진단방법에 대체할만한 새로운 검사법이 개발되었을 때 실제로 이를 임상적 진단에 활용하기 위해서는 이 검사의 민감도와 특이도를 추정하는 작업은 필수적이다. 예컨대 표준검사법 (gold standard)이 제시되어 잇을 경우 비교적 간단한 계산으로 추정이 가능하지만 대부분의 질병에서와 같이 표준검사법이 없을 경우에는 상당한 통계적 지식을 요구한다. 또한 소위 표준검사법이라고 하는 검사도 실제로 질병에 이환된 집단과 이환되지 않은 집단을 완벽히 이분해주는 (dichotomize) 능력을 가진 것이라고는 볼 수 없기 때문에 추정과정에 신중을 기해야 한다. 본 원고에서는 다양한 상황에서의 진단검사의 민감도와 특이도를 추정하는 방법에 대하여 기술하며 본 원고에서 설명한 내용과 유사한 자료에 대하여 분석을 원하는 독자는 저자에게 연락을 주면 자세한 분석절차에 대하여 논의가 가능하다.